The ruling does not affect the overall ban, but does temporarily halt measures that medical groups said were vague and medically unnecessary.
North Carolina ranks last or near last in many measures of public education spending. The new two-year budget could make these problems worse, educators say.
Republicans in the North Carolina legislature could create election maps that ensure party dominance for the next decade over several issues that affect day-to-day lives.
Unlicensed and unregulated crisis pregnancy centers offer “purposefully manipulative and deceptive practices” to dissuade patients from getting abortions, medical experts say.
The budget offers a mix of good news on Medicaid, bad news for public schools, and weird news about judges, guns and plastic bags.
Senate Bill 749 restructures the state boards of elections so that tied votes are inevitable and the Republican-controlled legislature has the power to break them. The North Carolina House passed a bill on Tuesday that replaces the state’s efficient, bipartisan and award-winning elections infrastructure with a system likely to create deadlock over important decisions and...
Anita Earls, the only Black woman on the North Carolina Supreme Court, is being investigated by the state judicial watchdog for criticizing the court’s lack of diversity. In June, the only Black woman on the North Carolina Supreme Court described the lack of diversity in the state court system and said she’d often felt “very...